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The Morning Report 1/10/22

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and while the bad news is the Democrats are not only not going to let their January 6th Pagan rite go, but are going to be ramping it up all the way to November and beyond, the good news is most Americans (real Americans, not illegal aliens nor the hardcore Marxist Democrat base) could give a rat’s ass about it, being more concerned with trivial matters like freedom-killing economic hardship and senseless Chinese COVID mania. The globalists stole 2020 and having done so, what’s been the result? One solid year of abject domestic and foreign policy disasters, debacles and catastrophes unlike any single or even multiple years in America’s now-concluded history. Every decision, edict, executive order or law that brought all this about was done ostensibly for one reason: to reverse everything done in the previous four years by President Trump that brought about the exact opposite: arguably the greatest domestic and foreign policy triumphs in America’s now-concluded history. 

But it has to be more than that. Or has it? Doing the same things over and over while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. And yet this is exactly what the Democrats have been doing since forever. Sadly, 99.5% of the GOP fall into this category as well. The GOP is to opposition and reversal as Ashli Babbit and Roseanne Boyland are to terrorism and violent, white supremacist insurrection. I suppose in the end it doesn’t really matter if you’re a true believer like Titty Caca Cortez or an Elmer Gantry grifter like Cuck Schemer Schumer. The final destination is still a mass grave for any of us who stand in their way. 

So, the Democrats will milk the January 6th, 2021 incident — where all of the violence and destruction was solely caused by FBI agents, DC cops, and their Antifa/BLM confederates in MAGA gear while the hapless fools who followed them in to the Capitol to do nothing more than gawk at the scenery are now being held and brutalized at the hands of Moloch Garland — forever. They have to, because that’s all they have. They’re not going to be winning any elections on $6.00/gallon gas, transexual child rapists and Jive Kampf indoctrination, are they? At least not without the assistance of Dao-Min Yen.

The other reason to ramp up J6 fear-mongering is because all the fear-mongering regarding General Tso’s Sickness is not working, especially with the revelations from the CDC itself among other places that the latest Phi Beta Kappa variant is essentially no more dangerous than the common cold. But, in the immortal words of Rodgers and Hammerstein, “you’ve got to be taught to hate and fear.”

Until a few days ago, I had never heard the term “Mass Formation Psychosis.” There’s a phenomenon when something gets hot that all sorts of experts announce themselves on Twitter, when their expertise is about 24 hours old and an inch deep. . .

The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible “object of anxiety” and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object. . . 

. . . So are we in the midst of another madness coming to an end when we least expect it?

What started me on this post was not Mass Formation Psychosis, or the Madness of Crowds, it was this post by Joel Kotkin at Unherd, which proposes what seems most unlikely proposition that the “progressive” march through institutions we are witnessing in real time may be nearing its end, Is this the end of progressive America?

Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci’s famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths.

But what do they have to show for it? Not as much as they might have expected. Rather than a Bolshevik-style assumption of power, there’s every chance this institutional triumph will not produce an enduring political victory, let alone substantially change public opinion. . . 

. . . So there you have it. Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of The Progressive March Through Institutions. All connected somehow. Hope in the midst of despair.

But first, things will fall apart:
Kind of hard to have hope since the falling apart we’ve been through in this last year alone has been bad enough. Another year of this, let alone three, will kill me. 

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS 
FICTIONS AND FACTS

* * * * *

* * * * *

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  • “Under its new anti-prosecution district attorney, Manhattan might be in for more dark days.” Nothing to Bragg About

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT 

THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY 

POLITICS

  • Roger Kimball: “What’s certain is not too many Americans will be willing to hand over the honor of choosing the next president to Liz Cheney and her smug, entitled, and repellent confreres.” Trump in 2024? Maybe!
  • Johnson wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal saying that the decision to run was not “made lightly,” discussing how the fact America is in “peril” influenced his choice. “Much as I’d like to ease into a quiet retirement, I don’t feel I should,” he wrote. “This is a fight for freedom,” Johnson wrote. “This is not someone else’s fight, this is our fight, and it’s a fight we absolutely must win.” Ron Johnson Running For Third Term In Wisconsin
  • “[So-called quote-unquote “president”] Joe Biden was the next closest candidate with seven-to-one odds, followed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) with eight-to-one odds.”Donald Trump Is Betting Favorite To Win 2024 Election
  • Robert Spencer: “Biden’s handlers have clearly taken Obama’s dictum seriously: ‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.’ They’re clearly determined to give him as few opportunities to do so as possible. Even at the press conferences he has held, Biden has on several occasions made it clear that the people who are really in charge were keeping him on a short leash.” What’s Biden Hidin’? Holds Fewer Press Conferences and Interviews Than the Last Five Presidents
  • “He looks like a new man — and one who’s gunning for higher office.” Mike Pompeo Loses 90 Pounds: Is a Presidential Run Incoming?
  • “Supreme Court buffoonery and Pelosi psychodrama this week.” The Supreme Court and Congress Humiliate Themselves

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

ABORTION

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

  • “H.L. Mencken’s hobgoblins are busy keeping the populace alarmed.” What the Climate Scare and Pandemic Fearmongering Have in Common
  • “The end of the pandemic may not alter the new class structure. Green activists see in the lockdowns a model for their preferred strategy of aaving the planet by immiserating the middle class, even though climate change is named as the country’s biggest problem by a tiny 4 percent.” Bugs for Thee, Not for Me

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 

  • “Public-private partnership to develop market and technologies to repair and refuel existing satellites, remove orbital debris.” U.S. Space Force’s New “Orbital Prime” Program Focused on Building In-Orbit Services
  • “Right now the company’s future is very much in question. It has delayed all of its commercial suborbital flights until late this year, if then. Meanwhile, Blue Origin is flying commercial suborbital tourist flights, and the orbital space tourism market is ramping up quite successfully. With no ability to enter that orbital market, Virgin Galactic appears to be at a dead end.” Virgin Galactic Stock Crashes
  • “In the original image, the rock appeared very square as it was on the horizon and silhouetted by the black sky. As is usual in our emotion- and movie-run society, many began to push wild theories about the rock, proposing it was anything from an alien spacecraft to the monolith from the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Yutu 2 Approaches Boulder; Has Now Traveled More Than 1,000 Meters

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

HITHER & YON 

FINALLY . . . 

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and while the bad news is the Democrats are not only not going to let their January 6th Pagan rite go, but are going to be ramping it up all the way to November and beyond, the good news is most Americans (real Americans, not illegal aliens nor the hardcore Marxist Democrat base) could give a rat’s ass about it, being more concerned with trivial matters like freedom-killing economic hardship and senseless Chinese COVID mania. The globalists stole 2020 and having done so, what’s been the result? One solid year of abject domestic and foreign policy disasters, debacles and catastrophes unlike any single or even multiple years in America’s now-concluded history. Every decision, edict, executive order or law that brought all this about was done ostensibly for one reason: to reverse everything done in the previous four years by President Trump that brought about the exact opposite: arguably the greatest domestic and foreign policy triumphs in America’s now-concluded history. 

But it has to be more than that. Or has it? Doing the same things over and over while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. And yet this is exactly what the Democrats have been doing since forever. Sadly, 99.5% of the GOP fall into this category as well. The GOP is to opposition and reversal as Ashli Babbit and Roseanne Boyland are to terrorism and violent, white supremacist insurrection. I suppose in the end it doesn’t really matter if you’re a true believer like Titty Caca Cortez or an Elmer Gantry grifter like Cuck Schemer Schumer. The final destination is still a mass grave for any of us who stand in their way. 

So, the Democrats will milk the January 6th, 2021 incident — where all of the violence and destruction was solely caused by FBI agents, DC cops, and their Antifa/BLM confederates in MAGA gear while the hapless fools who followed them in to the Capitol to do nothing more than gawk at the scenery are now being held and brutalized at the hands of Moloch Garland — forever. They have to, because that’s all they have. They’re not going to be winning any elections on $6.00/gallon gas, transexual child rapists and Jive Kampf indoctrination, are they? At least not without the assistance of Dao-Min Yen.

The other reason to ramp up J6 fear-mongering is because all the fear-mongering regarding General Tso’s Sickness is not working, especially with the revelations from the CDC itself among other places that the latest Phi Beta Kappa variant is essentially no more dangerous than the common cold. But, in the immortal words of Rodgers and Hammerstein, “you’ve got to be taught to hate and fear.”

Until a few days ago, I had never heard the term “Mass Formation Psychosis.” There’s a phenomenon when something gets hot that all sorts of experts announce themselves on Twitter, when their expertise is about 24 hours old and an inch deep. . .

The conditions to set up mass formation psychosis include lack of social connectedness and sensemaking as well as large amounts of latent anxiety and passive aggression. When people are inundated with a narrative that presents a plausible “object of anxiety” and strategy for coping with it, then many individuals group together to battle the object with a collective singlemindedness. This allows people to stop focusing on their own problems, avoiding personal mental anguish. Instead, they focus all their thought and energy on this new object. . . 

. . . So are we in the midst of another madness coming to an end when we least expect it?

What started me on this post was not Mass Formation Psychosis, or the Madness of Crowds, it was this post by Joel Kotkin at Unherd, which proposes what seems most unlikely proposition that the “progressive” march through institutions we are witnessing in real time may be nearing its end, Is this the end of progressive America?

Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci’s famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths.

But what do they have to show for it? Not as much as they might have expected. Rather than a Bolshevik-style assumption of power, there’s every chance this institutional triumph will not produce an enduring political victory, let alone substantially change public opinion. . . 

. . . So there you have it. Mass Formation Psychosis. The Madness of Crowds. And The End Of The Progressive March Through Institutions. All connected somehow. Hope in the midst of despair.

But first, things will fall apart:
Kind of hard to have hope since the falling apart we’ve been through in this last year alone has been bad enough. Another year of this, let alone three, will kill me. 

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION 

AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS 
FICTIONS AND FACTS

* * * * *

* * * * *

THE ECONOMY, STUPID

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

  • “Under its new anti-prosecution district attorney, Manhattan might be in for more dark days.” Nothing to Bragg About

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT 

THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY 

POLITICS

  • Roger Kimball: “What’s certain is not too many Americans will be willing to hand over the honor of choosing the next president to Liz Cheney and her smug, entitled, and repellent confreres.” Trump in 2024? Maybe!
  • Johnson wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal saying that the decision to run was not “made lightly,” discussing how the fact America is in “peril” influenced his choice. “Much as I’d like to ease into a quiet retirement, I don’t feel I should,” he wrote. “This is a fight for freedom,” Johnson wrote. “This is not someone else’s fight, this is our fight, and it’s a fight we absolutely must win.” Ron Johnson Running For Third Term In Wisconsin
  • “[So-called quote-unquote “president”] Joe Biden was the next closest candidate with seven-to-one odds, followed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) with eight-to-one odds.”Donald Trump Is Betting Favorite To Win 2024 Election
  • Robert Spencer: “Biden’s handlers have clearly taken Obama’s dictum seriously: ‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.’ They’re clearly determined to give him as few opportunities to do so as possible. Even at the press conferences he has held, Biden has on several occasions made it clear that the people who are really in charge were keeping him on a short leash.” What’s Biden Hidin’? Holds Fewer Press Conferences and Interviews Than the Last Five Presidents
  • “He looks like a new man — and one who’s gunning for higher office.” Mike Pompeo Loses 90 Pounds: Is a Presidential Run Incoming?
  • “Supreme Court buffoonery and Pelosi psychodrama this week.” The Supreme Court and Congress Humiliate Themselves

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

ABORTION

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS

HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

  • “H.L. Mencken’s hobgoblins are busy keeping the populace alarmed.” What the Climate Scare and Pandemic Fearmongering Have in Common
  • “The end of the pandemic may not alter the new class structure. Green activists see in the lockdowns a model for their preferred strategy of aaving the planet by immiserating the middle class, even though climate change is named as the country’s biggest problem by a tiny 4 percent.” Bugs for Thee, Not for Me

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 

  • “Public-private partnership to develop market and technologies to repair and refuel existing satellites, remove orbital debris.” U.S. Space Force’s New “Orbital Prime” Program Focused on Building In-Orbit Services
  • “Right now the company’s future is very much in question. It has delayed all of its commercial suborbital flights until late this year, if then. Meanwhile, Blue Origin is flying commercial suborbital tourist flights, and the orbital space tourism market is ramping up quite successfully. With no ability to enter that orbital market, Virgin Galactic appears to be at a dead end.” Virgin Galactic Stock Crashes
  • “In the original image, the rock appeared very square as it was on the horizon and silhouetted by the black sky. As is usual in our emotion- and movie-run society, many began to push wild theories about the rock, proposing it was anything from an alien spacecraft to the monolith from the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.” Yutu 2 Approaches Boulder; Has Now Traveled More Than 1,000 Meters

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

HITHER & YON 

FINALLY . . . 

NOTE: The opinions expressed in some links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.